I have just been to the scotish records office in Edinburgh, to help the wife lookup her family tree
I was horrified to dicsover ANYONE can pay as little as TEN quid and lookup the official birth , death of marrage record for ANYONE in Scotland using??a computerised system and then transcribe the details to a notepad or to your family tree software on you laptop, which they will even allow you to plug into the mains
In 3 hours yoiu could look up a hundred or so names and their mothers maiden names, place of birth etc??etc
For my Wife this was great, she managed to trace her family back to the 15th Century in less than one day
but the implications??for ID theft??are scary !!!!!!
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